For two years I will be preaching the Gospel of Jesus Christ and serving the people in the area of the Salt Lake City East Mission! My mother has volunteered to post my letters and pictures on this blog so you can follow me. I have been preparing for my mission for 18 years by exercising faith and building a testimony of my Savior Jesus Christ and His amazing Gospel. Please email or write me if you have any questions or just want to talk!

Tuesday, December 8, 2015

"The District"

Elder Kupaka'a

Hey family!

Alright, so because of popular demand I will be
sharing things about the district living arrangements and stuff like
that! I will start with the district:

So starting on the top row from left to right:

1. You have President of course.

2. Elder Pittman- he is a brand new missionary and
he is a convert of about 2 years. He is super cool!

3. Elder Moe- he is pretty cool but sometimes he
gets on my nerves especially when he tears up the bathroom right before I
shower ;D

4. Elder Gill- He is really awesome! He has been to
a year of BYU I before he came out. His Dad was in the Air Force so he lived in
Germany for a while and he has India Indian background. He has a ton of faith,
is really spiritual, humble and doesn’t get annoyed when I want to pray a lot
(which is super nice). We get along great!

5. Sister Uelese- She is Polynesian, which says a
lot already! She is super fun, speaks Spanish (which can be bad for the Spanish Elders sometimes) hahaha, and left for her mission as a teacher in Alaska. She
has a favorite question that she loves to ask people that is very thought
provoking... "Have you ever been slapped by a poly??" All joking
aside, she is actually really nice, a stud missionary and the best English
speaker out of the trio.

6. Sister Pauni- a lot of the things said about
sister Uelese can be said here. Sister Pauni is super funny! She sometimes
wears this hat that is white and furry and looks amazingly funny but she rocks
it! She is very good at popping her knuckles in a way that Instills fear into
those she is looking upon. She hails from the kingdom of Tonga and taught the
zone some togan words including "Namuseku" which she assured us meant
handsome man. (We asked brother Wolfgram, a Tongan in one of our wards, and it
means ....). I promised the
sisters I wouldn't tell anyone in the zone what it means so keep it on the DL.

7. Sister Masih- she was born in Samoa but moved to
Australia when she was really young. She is like the mom of the group and does
her best! She was in my zone in Wyoming so I already kind of knew her. She is
pretty hard to understand sometimes but she is hilarious too! I gave her a
blessing one time when she was sick and her middle name is Sunshine - that
describes her really well!

8. Elder Sales- he is from California and came out
with me. He is super cool! I am going to be going on exchanges with him soon
and getting to know him a lot better!

9. Elder Kupaka'a- he is from Hawaii (the big
island) he is like the biggest goofball I have ever met. He said he doesn’t
speak native Hawaiian but he spoke fluent Pigeon which is like a mix of a bunch
of other languages. He is a really hard worker and is super good at drawing and
stuff. He loves to teach using little hand motions and visuals.

Front row left to right

1. Elder Alvarado- he is from Arizona and is
totally a redneck! It is super awesome. He loves to say super apostate things
and see people's reactions. He served in Lyman, Wyoming before this and was
somewhat legendary for drinking goats milk straight from the goat.I am running out of time but that is
all the young missionaries in my district.

A miracle I wanted to share
this week is a stellar example of member missionary work. There is this bomb
family in the ward. Their youngest daughter is an awesome member
missionary. She made a bet with one of her friends at school (she is thirteen
years old) that if her friend lost she had to take a missionary lesson. So she
came up and told us one day and was like, "hey I have a friend who owes me
two missionary lessons." We were like, "what do you mean??" Then
she explained it to us. We ended up meeting with her friend thinking it was kind of going to be a joke, but she made the bet because she
really cared and loved this friend and knew she needed the gospel. After a
spiritual lesson on the Restoration, she accepted the invitation to be baptized
and is getting baptized on the 9th of January!!

Sorry not a great letter today. I love you guys so much and I love my Savior, Jesus
Christ.

Love,

Elder Moe

PS I met one of Marlin Moes nieces or something the
other day. She has been to Bob’s place on the lake.

PSS look at family tree. There are a lot of things
that need to be fixed

This stud Truman helps out with driving sometimes.
He will be serving a mission in January to the TEXAS FORT WORTH
Mission in the language of Marshallese!